English modality : core, periphery and evidentiality /
edited by Juana I. Mar�in-Arrese [and three others].
- 1 online resource (459 pages) : illustrations.
- Topics in English linguistics, volume 81 1434-3452 ; .
- Topics in English linguistics ; 81. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modals : striving for control / Ronald Langacker -- Contemporary change in modal usage in spoken British English : mapping the impact of "genre" / Jill Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts -- Where have all the modals gone? : an essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English / Geoffrey Leech -- Had better, 'd better and better : diachronic and transatlantic variation / Johan van der Auwera, Dirk No�el and An van Linden -- Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals : a comparative study / Peter Collins -- Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician / Luc�ia Loureiro-Porto -- Modal uses of the English present progressive / Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit -- On the generic argument for the modality of will / Debra Ziegeler -- Reality and related concepts : towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen -- A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem / Aurelija Usonien�e and Jolanta �Sink�unien�e -- Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality / Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla -- Modal verbs in news-related blogs : when the blogger counts / Roberta Facchinetti -- Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance : intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews / Laura Hidalgo Downing and Bego�nia N�u�nez Perucha -- Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq inquiry : Blair vs. Brown / Juana I. Mar�in-Arrese.
9783110286328 (e-book)
English language--Modality.
Modality (Linguistics)
Evidentials (Linguistics)
Electronic books.
PE1315.M6 / E534 2013eb
425/.6
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modals : striving for control / Ronald Langacker -- Contemporary change in modal usage in spoken British English : mapping the impact of "genre" / Jill Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts -- Where have all the modals gone? : an essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English / Geoffrey Leech -- Had better, 'd better and better : diachronic and transatlantic variation / Johan van der Auwera, Dirk No�el and An van Linden -- Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals : a comparative study / Peter Collins -- Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician / Luc�ia Loureiro-Porto -- Modal uses of the English present progressive / Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit -- On the generic argument for the modality of will / Debra Ziegeler -- Reality and related concepts : towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen -- A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem / Aurelija Usonien�e and Jolanta �Sink�unien�e -- Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality / Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla -- Modal verbs in news-related blogs : when the blogger counts / Roberta Facchinetti -- Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance : intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews / Laura Hidalgo Downing and Bego�nia N�u�nez Perucha -- Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq inquiry : Blair vs. Brown / Juana I. Mar�in-Arrese.
9783110286328 (e-book)
English language--Modality.
Modality (Linguistics)
Evidentials (Linguistics)
Electronic books.
PE1315.M6 / E534 2013eb
425/.6